Crush

[clevermanka]

While browsing the archives of an LJ comm, I saw an icon of Michael Palin and thought "awwww..."

It made me wonder--how many teenage girls, in 1985, got hot and bothered when thinking about Galahad in Castle Anthrax? If we leave out the rabid cult of Duran Duran (which had its own problems with acceptability), my teenage libido struck on at least two strange choices.

Michael Palin


and

Steve Martin


How many other people, as nerdy teenagers, had crushes that would have been deemed freakish by their non-nerd peers? Fess up, you card-carrying members of the geek show. What unlikely candidates inhabited your early, awkward fantasies?

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_luaineach/]

It likely doesn't count as geeky, but I had a TOTAL crush on the lead singer of The Knack (http://www.knack.com/), based entirely on the album Get The Knack (http://www.knack.com/html/disc.html), when I was 11 in 1980.

Man, I still love that album! I'm slightly disturbed to consider that the lyric content of that album might have had quite an influence, there, in my hitting-puberty formative years!

And, of course, Evil Dead's Bruce Campbell (http://www.bruce-campbell.com/)

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Other than My Sharona, I've never heard anything else from these gentlemen. I must investigate further. Thank you for the music suggestion!

Bruce Campbell not only qualifies as a freak crush, but gets you some serious street cred. I didn't know of the Evil Dead franchise until college.